Hi Guys,
I have been playing around with pligg and noticed that i was getting some slow load times. I read through a couple of threads here and was alerted to the fact that maybe gzip was not activated. I tested my sites
http://www.p2pvine.info/ and
http://www.gamblingvine.info/ and lo and behold gzip was disabled/off.
Reading and searching the forums i tried a few suggestions including the digitalnature mod for gzip but it didnt give me much improvment. And as p2pvine uses mollio-beat as it's template the digitalnature hack wasnt much use.
So what was my solution that greatly improved my load times from somtimes 6 - 9 seconds to 1 -3.
Check is your site is gzipped or not -
http://leknor.com/code/gziped.php
First off you need 2 make 2 php files called
begin_gzip.php
Code:
<?php
ob_start("ob_gzhandler");
?>
Place the code above in your file and save it as
begin_gzip.php
end_gzip.php
Code:
<?php
ob_flush();
?>
Place the code above in your file and save it as
end_gzip.php
okay you need to add 2 lines to your .htaccess file also for this to work.
.htaccess
Code:
php_value auto_prepend_file /home/user/path/to/begin_gzip.php
php_value auto_append_file /home/path/to/end_gzip.php
You need to include the two lines above to your htaccess file, remembering to change the path to the PHP files as required. The path must be the absolute server path.
Upload the 3 files
.htaccess
begin_gzip.php
end_gzip.php
To your pligg directory root and you should be good to go.
Again check your site for gzip -
http://leknor.com/code/gziped.php
You should now browse your site and hopefully notice some drastic improvmentsin the speed. I know this is not the ideal fix but until the dev's (Who we should thank for all the great work thay do on pligg
) come up wih a better solution.
I tried all previous suggestions on the forum and after testing this way seems to work best by far. Any feedback from others that have tried this solution and there results would be appreciated.
Enjoy
Adaman
NOTE: If you have a fourm installed on the same domain name as plig and in a sub folder like
http://www.your-domain.com/forum/ etc you will need to disable you forums gzip option. This can be done from you forum software control panel.
phpbb - will give you mysql errors otherwise
VBulletin - Will look like encoded text if you do not diable it's gzip
This gzip technique covers the whole domain so any foums installed in a sub-folder will get errors if you do not disable there gzip functions.
if your forums are on a sub domain like forums.your-domain.com you need the forums gzip enabled
